OPEN MIC FEATURE #2
"Sermon on the Dark Knight (Batman)"
written by Unborn Buddha
Batman and Robin what a curious two.
Vigilant crusaders against nefarious fools
who joke & riddle with others' lives in search of truth.
Is the protagonist a virtue of proof?
Or a product of staring too attentively at his parents tomb
Until outcomes Bruce, the real identity of the costumed sleuth.
Whose obsessed with the memoirs in his album book
That reflected his past and youth.
Memories that seem as immortal as Ra's Al Ghoul,
whose legacy spans as mythical as Vamps and Ghouls.
But the immortal's heart broods because the hard truth
is the grim reaper is a forever hunter.
The Lazarus pit is a poor excuse one conjures for an answer.
Yet Talia insists to her beloved to join their ranks and live
a life focused on starting the apocalypse, so to alter the populace.
Eugenists depicted in comic strips prove that drunks of madness exist.
& the only release for such intoxicated shift in consciousness is amethyst.
A stone oculists and holistic ophthalmologists utilize for phantasms which
contribute to the maniac's mischief,
with quests as sadistic as what Brainiac seeking.
And so the legendary dark knight emerges in view,
Deciphering murder clues & becoming immune to poisonous fumes,
but also sullenly to joyous views that in Gotham is an unknown pursuit.
Ra's Al Ghoul plan is stopped, and everything returns to normal soon
because the soaring hero is burning to stop the servants and brutes
of Lucifer's group who worship monsoons.
But a curse accrues when the knight tries to balance the world.
A challenge unfurls that threatens to turn the planet to sorrow.
Villains so crude since childhood they absorbed the horrors
Of the universe that made them turn so morally twisted///
The way they killed their victims will make your eyes curl, child murderers.
The caped martyr faces his greatest threat,
and he barely manages to escape his death.
Believing he perished even two face prays for him.
F.Y.I. his grapple gun is not used for assaulting thugs.
But to hang by a thread when jumping off.
Things tend to happen when one's side job
is beating goons until blood and puke
makes them spills the beans, what they knew
Plus a busted tooth.
The superhero vigilante has only loved a few,
and some of them departed through when hardship bloomed.
Jason Todd is sleeping, after the clown carved his wisdom
Onto his prisoner, and then the bomb started ticking.
But the knight arrived just when the zero mark was hitting.
And now Nightwing faces Robin's demons.
The poor mourning Wayne blames his sluggish Batmobile,
The alluring loony that is Joker won't stop his laughs until
killing all the little children trapped and sealed in the plot the madman build.
An injured billionaire heals under Alfred's meals, who offers willingly
a mantra of hope against the fear that even god then kneels.
But Bruce only hears what he wants to hear, over the years pain has numbed his ears.
Recovered he wards off the madman's guild
Putting them back into the asylum doped up on doctors pills.
Ironically it is Wayne that pays his foes doctor bills.
So in a way he keeps them alive and insane so thy
fun never wanes, and so he can save the lives
of those saying "oh save me my savior knight".
If only someone can tame his fire & sway his mind
to grace the light and begin an unscathed tryst
Between Bane and thine. Someone should save his life.
But that requires someone to contain his vice,
And pay the price for changing time.
THE NEWS
What the hell happened in Round 1?!....
I'll tell you exactly what happened. What usually always happens in tournaments.... no shows. But I'm sure even more weird was the fact that there was two opened battles that were suddenly closed to voting. So what happened? After discussing back and forth with fellow moderator, Adonis, we decided instead of entering the next round with possible 3 way match ups, we would make some adjustments. First off, all the competitors who did show and drop, they got an automatic pass to the next round. We felt it was a fair thing to do. Afterwards, as you see in the chat thread, we altered the brackets a tad bit. So in the end, we avoided having any three way matches and a discombobulated round 2. We believe that this round will have much less no shows and more completed matches. So let's get our verses done, especially since there is plenty of extra time since round 1 ended so quickly.
Good luck to all competitors.
Predictions....
I predict that there better be no no-shows.
85-15.
AOWL Season 4.... coming soon!!!
A new season of the AOWL will open for sign ups after Labor Day. The season will then start about 2 weeks after. There will be plenty of changes and fresh challenges as well. I will be running the show with one/two other moderators, to be named soon. Expect more of the same greatness. Further details will be discussed and presented after the conclusion of this tournament.
Get ready.